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💬 The Wrap

I'm going to get straight to the point. Regardless of whether you think there are already too many emojis, or if you feel there's a large gap in your life that only a chair or parachute emoji will fix, todays news remains the same:

More seriously, this release includes new accessibility options (people in wheelchairs, with a cane, a deaf gesture, guide dog), a gender inclusive couple, more flexible skin tones for groups, new colors, animals, a waffle, and some other odds and ends which may or may not end up being useful. Sometimes it's hard to tell. Here is today's announcement from Unicode of the release.

These aren't arriving on phones today, but this is your first chance to see exactly which emojis are coming to devices throughout this year. See also: thread on Twitter with new additions.

💭 Interesting

The German Foreign Office neglected to double-check its flag use before tweeting: "We will not allow 🇨🇮 to be isolated on this issue"; which as many people were quick to point out, is the flag for 🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire

Occasionally I wonder if the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee were replaced with a random roll of the dice, what would the outcome be? So many emojis become popular for reasons not originally intended. In this instance, the goat for "Greatest Of All Time".

Kind of weird way to show a URL when this isn't actually an emoji domain (there are no emoji domains for .com - only obscure registries like .ws and .la).

I'm always being sent news about emoji domain sales from brokers. Seemingly, a number of people saw the opportunity of emoji domains and bought hundreds (thousands?) of them, hoping to make big money from a few sales. That may end up being the case, but so far emoji domains seem to be more of a novelty than anything.

Note: Emojipedia can be accessed via 📙.ws/ and 📙.la/ - and you can jump straight to a page using 📙.la/🤩

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🤗 Lastly

A special hello to a primary school 👨‍🏫 teacher of mine from Australia who reached out last month. He had apparently subscribed to this newsletter for a while, and it was great to hear from him. Hi Frank! 👋